Cross posted to WikiEn-l since I plan to tweak en.wiki's interface a tiny bit. --- David Monniaux David.Monniaux@ens.fr wrote:
Personally, I think that having clear complaint links reduces our risk of getting sued or at least of getting served legal summons by angry and frustrated people.
I would not call it a 'complaint link' since I (and I imagine many others) don't want to encourage complaints, per se. We can, however, largely fix the apparent-lack-of-feedback-mechanism issue *right now* by editing [[MediaWiki:Help]] to read 'Help / Contact us' instead of just 'Help'. I've already made some small changes the the English Wikipedia's [[help:Contents]] page to make this hack work (ideally 'Help' and 'Contact us' would each link to their own pages, but that is not possible).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Help (where I've already said I will do this in two days).
That should tide us over until/if we get the generic footer message MediaWiki page I was talking about in my last email (where multiple links and/or messages could be displayed - not unlike [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]], except most of the links would be there all the time).
-- mav
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